Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether three year Sustainable Farming Incentive agreements are counted in a single year's farming budget or divided across three years of payments.

The budget for new SFI26 agreements is £310 million a year. Nearly all SFI26 agreements will last for three years, meaning the total value of new SFI26 agreements, assuming the full annual budget is spent, would be around £930 million over three years.